2012年5月12日 星期六

A frail child beset by a seemingly endless parade of illnesses, Mr. Sendak was reared, he said afterward, in a world of looming terrors: the Depression; World War II; the Holocaust, in which many of his European relatives perished; the seemingly infinite vulnerability of children to danger. He experienced the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 as a personal torment: if that fair-haired, blue-eyed princeling could not be kept safe, what certain peril lay in store for him, little Murray Sendak, in his humble apartment in Bensonhurst? ............

As Mr. Sendak grew up — lower class, Jewish, gay — he felt permanently shunted to the margins of things. “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy,” he told The New York Times in a 2008 interview. “They never, never, never knew.”

- NYTimes.com

I believe for every great artist there must be sort of pain or melancholia behind him/her so that he/she could write such an amazing story as an outlet ...

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Maschera, born and raised in Hong Kong, is an illustrator with a strong addiction to the beauty of melancholy. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Sociology.
面具。3月8日生。香港。大學時修讀社會學。不切實際。想一個人同時和這個世界上的人好好相處。迷戀美麗與哀愁。